Stephen Farrall is a criminologist and Chair of Criminology at the University of Sheffield School of Law. He works in several areas, including: the long-term impact of Thatcherite social and economic policies on crime; fear of crime; desistence from crime; middle-class criminal offending; and research methods (particularly measurement issues in survey techniques). Farrall has his D.Phil from the University of Oxford and has previously taught at Keele University, the University of Oxford, and Australia National University.